How Rochester, NY Is Streamlining Budgeting while Improving Transparency and Accountability with OpenGov

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenGov, the leader in modern cloud software for local governments and state agencies, is partnering with Rochester, NY to enable the City to streamline budgeting, planning, and reporting, while also improving financial transparency and accountability.

Rochester, NY has been on a mission to bring greater transparency and accountability to budgeting and planning — particularly with the increased attention and expanded reporting requirements around federal stimulus funds. To streamline its budget creation process and improve accountability and performance, the City selected OpenGov Budgeting & Planning over a number of other solutions.

"After reviewing several solutions, we selected OpenGov to bring greater efficiency and accountability to budgeting and support our vision of greater community engagement and transparency surrounding our budget process," explained Michael T. Burns, Budget Director, City of Rochester, NY. "The comprehensiveness of OpenGov's capabilities, its process for efficiently implementing the solution, and its award-winning support team set it apart from other govtech companies," said Burns.

"OpenGov is thrilled to be partnering with the fourth largest city in the State of New York. The OpenGov team has rallied around this partnership, and we are dedicated to making the City of Rochester successful in meeting their strategic goals now and in the future," said Claudia Arriaga, Vice President of Customer Success, OpenGov. "With OpenGov, the City of Rochester will be moving from a completely Excel-based budgeting to the leading budgeting and planning solution for local government," added Arriaga.

OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies. On a mission to power more effective and accountable government, OpenGov serves 1,100 agencies across the U.S. Built exclusively for the unique budgeting, procurement, financial management, and citizen services needs of the public sector, the OpenGov Cloud makes organizations more collaborative, digitizes mission-critical processes, and enables best-in-class communication with stakeholders.

SOURCE OpenGov